nVidia Tools


Numerosi tool di manipolazione dei file .DDS si possono trovare alla pagina

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html

NVIDIA Texture Tools

 

Tool

Description

All NVIDIA Texture Tools

All the tools in one convenient package. Includes command line based tools to compress/decompress images, and nvDXTLib.lib, which is a compression library for using compression in your tools.
The library also comes with examples that show how to use it.

Documentation

Useful documentation.

nvDXT Binary

Command-line binary version of the nvDXT library.

3dsmax .dds Import Plug-in Source

Source code for the 3dsmax .dds plugins (courtesy of Sean Palmer).

3dsmax 3 .dds Plug-in

Allows 3dsmax 3 to read .dds files.

3dsmax 4 .dds Plug-in

Allows 3dsmax 4 to read .dds files.

3dsmax 5 .dds Plug-in

Allows 3dsmax 5 to read .dds files.

DDS Photoshop Plug-in

This is a DXTC texture compression plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to open and save .dds files in RGB format. The plugin reads and writes .dds files compressed or uncompressed. 

Requirements:
You will need to place the plug-in (dds.8bi) in
C:\Program Files\Adobe\photoshop 7.0\plug-ins\file formats
and these required dlls
msvcr71.dll and
msvcp71.dll 
in your
Windows\System folder
you will have to extract them from the DLLs.zip file.

DDS Thumbnail Viewer

Allows you to view .dds files in Thumbnail view in the Windows Explorer. 
Now with an installer.

Adobe PhotoShop Normal Map Plug-in

Creates normal maps from height maps for per pixel rendering.